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Oct 14, 2021 7:42 am
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Host Chefren Gray, a.k.a. Chef the Chef, gave the growing audience at Cafe Nine a wide smile Wednesday night as he introduced New Haven Grand Prix Round 4 — not the bike race, sadly cancelled again this year, but Gray’s gladly ongoing showcase of New Haven’s hip hop and R&B talent, now taking place monthly.
“If this is your first time, welcome,” he said, as he promised the crowd the “most exuberant, incredible, persistent artists in the area.” With act after act of rappers and singers, he delivered on that promise.
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Oct 8, 2021 8:27 am
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The front gallery of Artspace, right on the corner of Orange and Crown, has been made into a living room of sorts. While the pieces are displayed on pedestals, as they might be in a museum, the warm tone of the walls beckons people in from the street. The carpet on the floor looks soft and inviting — even if it is made of shells. The pieces look old and worn, as if well-loved by users before being preserved. We can’t touch any of it, but we can be in the same space, with comfort and ease.
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Oct 7, 2021 8:24 am
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Jeremy Cooney of Brother Beauty gave the audience a sly smile from the stage. “Feeling good, feeling loose, and that’s a good way to feel,” he said at the beginning of his set. It set the tone for a two-band bill at Cafe Nine Wednesday night that matched a new New Haven band with a well-traveled touring act from Kentucky, with pleasing, relaxed, and spaced-out results.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 4, 2021 8:23 am
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Space Camp.
Friday marked the start of live shows at The State House after a year and a half of Covid closures and restrictions. The venue, which had been allowing a few closed-to-the-public events, such as livestreams and video shoots, reconvened with a three-band bill that reenergized the space as well as the music community, who gathered with masks on and space between them, but still as one with an intention to celebrate.
Proposed housing slated to replace parking at 300 State St. lot. (The building on the left in this rendering would be new. The building on the right currently exists.)
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A Boston-based affordable housing developer plans to build 79 apartments —and only three parking spaces — in the Ninth Square, in an effort to convert a surface lot and existing historic commercial buildings into affordable places to live rather than affordable places to put cars.
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Sep 23, 2021 3:03 pm
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A prefab skate park, coming soon to downtown?
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Next stop, George Street: Roberts and Joseph at their previous project, Scantlebury Skate Park.
A prefabricated skate park is one big step closer to landing in downtown New Haven, as parking authority commissioners unanimously approved a plan to host the artistic-athletic installation atop a George Street surface lot.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 15, 2021 8:20 am
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Can you start celebrating the weekend on a Tuesday? You could if you were at Cafe Nine last night. Two acts got the crowd energized enough to make it seem as if it were much later in the week than it actually was, with music that made you move.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 2, 2021 8:55 am
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Host Dan Kalwhite smiled at the mic on the Cafe Nine stage Wednesday evening as he welcomed the crowd of a few dozen who had come down to the club on the corner of State and Crown despite the rain picking up outside.
“You braved the storm — thank you so much,” he said. “Who came down the river by boat?”
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Aug 31, 2021 7:20 am
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Noah Silvestry struck the opening chords of the song “Ancient” in front of a rapt crowd at Cafe Nine, signaling both the start of the show and the first-ever live appearance by his band, Luke Ellingson. Silvestry, a Pennsylvania native, moved to New Haven for school and has made his way into the local music scene recording at his home studio in Wooster Square under the Luke Ellingson moniker. His most recent release, Clementine, is out now on the Connecticut-based label Funnybone.
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Aug 11, 2021 9:43 am
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Loralee and Bruce Crowder.
A new documentary from Gorman Bechard, the New Haven Documentary Film Festival’s executive director, sparked a gathering of New Haven musicians who came together to pay tribute to a departed rock icon at Cafe Nine Tuesday night.
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Aug 2, 2021 9:34 am
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Two New Haven-based bands — Love ‘N Co. and Thabisa — brought groove and growth to Cafe Nine on Friday night, as both made music that nourished heads, hearts, and feet.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 29, 2021 8:32 am
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Ferrer.
Fernandito Ferrer began the last song of his set Wednesday night with a shaker that he fanned in the air in front of the microphone. His pedal captured the sound. He added whistles uncannily like bird calls, a falling chain that sounded like rain. Then he began playing the guitar and lifting his voice. By the end he had built the song into cascading waves of sound that entranced the full house that had come to Cafe Nine to hear music — and he, humbly, was the opening act.
Commissioner Pagan, Chair Radcliffe: Go slow on builder breaks.
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“Massing study” of planned redevelopment of State and Chapel.
City planners held back on endorsing a proposed tax break for a new affordable housing project downtown, after two commissioners declined to back another city handout to a developer — even if that developer has a great reputation in the neighborhood.
A “massing study” of the planned redevelopment of State and Chapel.
Beacon CEO Kovel: Tax break key to making numbers work.
A Boston-based developer has taken a second crack at obtaining subsidies for an affordable housing project downtown — this time with more apartments planned, and a larger tax break.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 12, 2021 9:41 am
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Nelson.
Sunday afternoon’s tribute at Cafe Nine to New Haven-based musician and writer Rob Nelson, who died of a heart attack on May 26 at the age of 56, began with a reading of an excerpt of Walt Whitman, from his preface to Leaves of Grass.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 12, 2021 8:00 am
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Brian Ember.
Baroque-pop theatrics and pop confections went head-to-head on Friday night at Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown Streets, as the New Haven-based Brian Ember and Youth XL gave two sets of music that heralded the return of something a lot like pre-pandemic normalcy to the long-running music club.
Stephen Ross and Jason V. Watts outside their soon-to-open restaurant and music spot.
Jason V. Watts and Stephen Ross are bringing food from across the African diaspora — from jollof rice to jerk chicken to collard greens — to the spot the former home of the high-end Indian restaurant Thali.
The new restaurant, Jazzy’s Soul Kitchen and Lounge, is slated to officially open at the corner of Orange and George in September.
Homeless New Haveners now have a dedicated spot downtown where they’re invited to come hang out, have an iced drink, socialize, and escape from the summer heat, no questions asked.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 4, 2021 10:38 am
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DJ B the T Jr.
Cafe Nine brought back another beloved series to its in-person scheduling last night as Shake ‘N’ Vibrate — the DJ-led, all-vinyl dance party — helped New Haven ease back on to the dance floor.
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Brian Slattery |
May 18, 2021 8:29 am
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Giant birds in flight. Trees swaying in a light breeze. A child dancing in a dinosaur costume. A fading mural restored. They’re part of Here’s Another Story, a project that uses a virtual-reality phone app to allow people to walk the streets of Ninth Square and, through their phone screens, watch the public art there bloom into festive, fun, and meaningful animation.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 19, 2021 10:00 am
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Maps of the United States in a patchwork of colors. A graph like a coiled spring. A diagram like a bullseye, creased with bright spikes. Hanging on the walls of Artspace’s gallery, they can read immediately as abstract art. They are, in fact, a series of data visualizations — charts, graphs, geographic and population information — that famed Black sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois and a team of researchers created to convey some of the realities of the Black experience in America over 100 years ago.
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Karen Ponzio |
Apr 12, 2021 9:38 am
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Buzz Gordo.
A toast of “cheers” with glasses raised was replaced with the phrase “welcome home” past Friday night at Cafe Nine, when the aptly nicknamed “musician’s living room” reopened for live music with a limited number of in-person patrons allowed in under Covid-19 guidelines.
